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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
卷 123, 期 10, 页码 4208-4218出版社
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/JCI67119
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- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study [N01-HC-25195]
- Affymetrix Inc. for genotyping services [N02-HL-6-4278]
- NIH [R01-NS017950-28, R01-HL093328-01, R01 HL092930, R01-HL086875, 1K23-HL116780]
- Boston University School of Medicine Department of Medicine Career Investment Award
- Ellison Foundation
- Taiwan National Science Council [101-2917-I-564-057]
- AHA postdoctoral fellowship [13POST16940030]
- NWO grant (veni) [916.12.154]
- EUR fellowship
- Robert Dawson Evans Endowment of the Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine
- Boston Medical Center
The suppression of turnorigenicity 2/IL-33 (ST2/IL-33) pathway has been implicated in several immune and inflammatory diseases. ST2 is produced as 2 isoforms. The membrane-bound isoform (ST2L) induces an immune response when bound to its ligand, IL-33. The other isoform is a soluble protein (sST2) that is thought to be a decoy receptor for IL-33 signaling. Elevated sST2 levels in serum are associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. We investigated the determinants of sST2 plasma concentrations in 2,991 Framingham Offspring Cohort participants. While clinical and environmental factors explained some variation in sST2 levels, much of the variation in sST2 production was driven by genetic factors. In a genome-wide association study (GWAS), multiple SNPs within IL1RL1 (the gene encoding ST2) demonstrated associations with sST2 concentrations. Five missense variants of IL1RL1 correlated with higher sST2 levels in the GWAS and mapped to the intracellular domain of ST2, which is absent in sST2. In a cell culture model, IL1RL1 missense variants increased sST2 expression by inducing IL-33 expression and enhancing IL-33 responsiveness (via ST2L). Our data suggest that genetic variation in IL1RL1 can result in increased levels of sST2 and alter immune and inflammatory signaling through the ST2/IL-33 pathway.
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